Ethnicity And Crime Flashcards
What are the two perspectives you should know that have similar but different theories when it comes to the link between ethnicity and crime?
- Left realists
- Neo-Marxists
Neo-Marxist perspective on ethnicity and crime, summarised.
. Racial profiling is because of ingrained racial myths and associations.
This has been cultivated within capitalism by moral panic theory, making folk devils of ethnic minorities as the perpetrators of crime.
- This is to make people disorganised in times of capitalist crisis when resistance against it becomes more sympathetic.
Left realism
The top down perspective that focuses on how wider societal structures and the economy, incentivises or leaves no alternative but crime.
Mayhew argues what?
Most crimes performed by young males is from poorer backgrounds, the overrepresentation of those from ethnic minority groups is because there’s a higher proportion of them in ethnic minority groups.
What is ‘canteen culture theory’ how does it relate to the topic of ethnicity and crime?
Institutional racism might be explained to be cultivated by the social interactions and comradery in the police force.
A valuing of confidentiality and suspicion, so racism is not called out.
This hyper masculine canteen culture is to smother the stresses of police work.
Hall studied who’s theory and applied to to what specific instance that they viewed as evidence of it?
Beckers labelling theory.
Instance of Black ‘muggers’, a moral panic that perpetuated an association between race and those crimes.
The theory of cultures of resistance is…
That ethnic minorities on the receiving end of scare campaigns and prejudice, might use crime as a tool of protest and resistance, particularly if organised.
Eg: Italian and Sicilian mafia in NY.
Eg: The violence used by neighbourhood militias formed by the Blackpanthers
Who came up with the theory of cultures of resistance?
Scraton.
Scraton
Cultures of resistance.
Paul Gilroy is a ___________ theorist.
His theory is that there’s a …
. NeoMarxist
- a myth of Black criminality that’s been cultivated carefully by years of subtle or overt racist profiling.
The ___________ theorist Gilroy, takes an __________________ approach to explaining the error of ____ ________.
What is this error?
. NeoMarxist theorist.
. Interactionist approach.
. Left Realists.
- The error according to Gilroy is that Left Realists hyper focus on the socially constructed crime statistics that stereotype minorities as poor and therefore criminal.
This focus on relative deprivation causes, makes these perspectives race-blind.
Gilroy acknowledges the relative deprivation of ethnic minorities, but takes a different approach to explaining why there’s so much of it.
What?
He posits that it’s the remnants of imperialism that has trickled down to make decendents remain poor in the counties that got rich off their ancestral homelands.
Hall’s theory of ‘p______ ____ ______’
And of
‘H________ ________’
And of
‘M_______ ______’
. Policing the crisis.
. Hustle culture.
. Moral panic.
Hall’s moral panic theory links to their study of what group and what phenomenon during the 1970s?
Black Young men.
. The 1970s moral panic about Black muggers, which created an image of this kind of criminal being a Black Young man in public consciousness.
What is ____’s theory of the Hustle culture?
A cultural observation made by Hall, the introspective method.
Hall observed a culture within the suburbs of Black youths where materialism was fixated upon as a symbol of Black masculinity and the work ethic therefore, indicative of a will to power against the racist society.
In particular illegal means of making money on the streets.
